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Peer Exchange Workshop on the "Perfect World of Measuring Congestion"
Workshop Summary Report

APPENDIX A: WORKSHOP AGENDA

Peer Exchange Workshop on the “Perfect World of Measuring Congestion”

Federal Highway Administration, Office of Operations

December 17-18, 2013
USDOT Conference Room #6
1200 New Jersey Ave, SE, Washington, DC

Dec 17th AM
8:30a to 12p
Session 1: Setting the Stage and Expectations
  • Introductions
  • Overview of FHWA project
  • Workshop goal: provide input for FHWA 5-year research plan.
  • Brief summary of white papers, focusing on capability maturity framework.
Session 2: Visioning/ Ideal State/Best Practices
  • Open discussion by all participants.
  • If time/resources/data were unconstrained, how would we structure performance monitoring and management programs?
  • Address data, tools, external variables, etc.
Dec 17th PM
1p to 4:30p
Session 3: Barriers, Hurdles, Unresolved Issues
  • What are barriers to the “Ideal State” discussed before lunch?
  • Don’t limit to big or small barriers, or easily solved barriers, just compile a listing of most important.
Session 4: Stepping Stones to the Ideal State
  • Provide structure and priority to barrier removal.
  • What barriers, when removed or mitigated, could provide the most cost-effective advances in operations performance management practices?
Dec 18th AM
8:30a to 11:30a
Session 5: Crafting a Research Plan
  • Summarize yesterday’s discussion of barriers and hurdles, gather feedback/confirmation.
  • Discuss logical research projects that address priority barriers.
  • Identify related efforts and stakeholders.
Session 6: Closure and Next Steps
  • Summarize research project concepts, gather feedback/confirmation.
  • Distribution of workshop notes to participants.
  • Discuss future avenues for involvement and peer exchange.
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